Do shrubs improve reproductive chances of neighbors across soil types in drought?
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DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04559-x
Abstract: Plant reproduction is highly sensitive to stress from severe weather. While facilitation has been shown to buffer negative impacts along stress gradients, less is known about facilitating plant reproduction in drought periods. Because intensity and… read more here.
Keywords: drought; plant; across soil; facilitation ... See more keywords
Functional traits indicate a continuum of tree drought strategies across a soil water availability gradient in a tropical dry forest
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118740
Abstract: Abstract This study evaluates drought survival mechanisms of tropical dry forest (TDF) trees based on their functional traits (FTs). We addressed the following questions: (i) What are the dominant functional guilds (FGs) of tree species… read more here.
Keywords: water; water availability; content; soil ... See more keywords
Hierarchical phylogenetic community assembly of soil protists in a temperate agricultural field.
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DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16134
Abstract: Protists are abundant, diverse and perform essential functions in soils. Protistan community structure and its change across time or space are traditionally studied at the species-level but the relative importance of the processes shaping these… read more here.
Keywords: agricultural field; soil protists; community; across soil ... See more keywords